Green

Note: This post is the second in a new series called “Entrepreneur Profiles.” These posts focus on an interesting entrepreneur who I’ve gotten to know and hopefully provide a window into their business that you might not…

I attended a talk by Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, last night at the Kohl Center in Madison. Pollan is one of my favorite writers and thinkers because he almost always has a new take on old problems that…

I talked about Twitter’s influence and response to the Iranian uprising compared to Google’s in a post a few days ago here and here. Google had been removing YouTube videos of the sometimes violent demonstrations because they…

Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist and owner of CO2stats.com, claims that every two Google searches uses as much energy as boiling a kettle of water. I have no idea if this is correct, but it seems very high to me.

I just finished reading the Economist’s special report on the world’s oceans. Its really good, worth the read, and best of all, its free on the Economist website.